Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Instead of focusing on big goals,focus on small goals.Small victories always lead to large ones.Swami Vivekanand..

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.